Walters v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Garfield county on a charge of having possession of eight barrels of mash, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $50 and confinement in the county jail for 30 days.

The evidence of the state is that the officers visited the premises of the defendant with a search warrant, and, upon accosting the defendant, he denied that there was any liquor or mash upon his premises. Upon a search, however, the officers found eight barrels of mash down on the creek bank buried under about a foot of earth and covered…